Mash(ing)up finance
I would imagine many people in the financial services industry think a mashup is something you do with potatoes or maybe involves bourbon… to be fair however most people actively involved in developing mashups don’t seem to have much interest in banking or securities trading if this site is representative…
(I suppose you’ll be surprised - not! - to find out that) I think this will change. Again the thread connecting finance to the current center of mash attention (media, travel, mapping, etc.) is the fact that it is essentially about data and value is added by organising and representing this data more effectively for the end user. When the “Mashup ecosystem explodes” (David Berlind) (via Doc Searls), I think there is something to be said for being a leader in the financial services space in terms of making your api’s available for mashing.
As an example, this idea (or something similar) over at Vanilla Put is something that would lend itself to a mashup approach.
January 31st, 2006 at 3:52 pm
See here for the final word on mashups: http://www.blackbeltjones.com/work/?p=1258